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omweekes.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, living in NYC / “It’s really hard not to mention, llamas.”
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The end of this speech never fails to give me shivers

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

$18 for 18 eggs

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Who has done a Marxist reading of Dance Moms?

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Me and my Sunday scaries

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NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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I quite honestly cannot imagine anything worse than trying to encourage NYC’s workforce of ~9 million to all drive to work

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LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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Still a Danity Kane stan to this day. Cant tell me nothing.

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In spite of it all the research group I'm leading at Cornell is hiring a postdoc! We're looking for someone w a lit/cultural studies + DH background, esp those who employ data-driven or computational methods. 2-yr position, 1/1 teaching load. Apps due 3/21 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Anyone looking for someone to round out their NWSA panel? 👀

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As if my alma mater couldn’t get more shameful. Bring that Luigi energy back please!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Giving my best himbo at the gym this morning 💪🏾

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Someone take me to the west coast please. 🙏🏾

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i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

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Snow(y) day

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Greta Thunberg doesn’t have my bank routing information

submitted 10 days ago • 53 comments

“Happy VD” hits different with the new health secretary is all I am saying.

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Took the opportunity to remember the blues of West Philly in my review of Imani Perry’s brilliant new book, Black in Blues, for @theatlantic.com.

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For the James Baldwin exhibit, "JIMMY! God's Black Revolutionary Mouth" at the Schomburg Center, Meshell Ndegeocello speaks with Prof. Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine", about Baldwin's friendship with Lorraine Hansberry. Of course, new book is amazing. #BlackSky And that Titus Kaphur cover!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Took the opportunity to remember the blues of West Philly in my review of Imani Perry’s brilliant new book, Black in Blues, for @theatlantic.com.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY now has a website at @princetonupress.bsky.social, complete with very generous blurbs from David James, @rbuurma.bsky.social & @laheffernan.bsky.social , and Andrew DuBois. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Had a wonderful time hearing Sarah Chihaya and Merve Emre talk about Sarah’s recently published memoir, /Bibliophobia/. Looking forward to getting into this one.

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It has been DEI with a hard R. It is resegregation.

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Fuck these people, man. Killing irony like this.

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"The Belle Da Costa Greene Award of $2,000 will be granted annually to a medievalist of color for research and travel. The award may be used to visit archives, attend conferences, or to facilitate writing and research." DUE 15 FEB More on award & Greene: www.medievalacademy.org/page/GreeneA...

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Me, prepping for class tonight.

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Hey, Drake! 👋🏾

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I did this too and haven’t regretted it for a minute.

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The puppy bowl’s commitment to slow motion video might be my favorite thing about 2025 thus far.

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Every year I say I won’t write a conference abstract about a novel I haven’t read and then every year…

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You all are buying eggs at these prices? I’ve had to give up my baking hobby in the meantime.

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Being anti-DEI means every black person is unqualified and the most racist white people are always qualified.

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Happy US publication day for Canisia Lubrin’s brilliant Code Noir.

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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 21 days ago • 619 comments